Basic info Taxonomic history Classification Included Taxa
Morphology Ecology and taphonomy External Literature Search Age range and collections

Protosuchia

Reptilia

Taxonomy
Protosuchia was named by Mook (1934).

It was reranked as the infraorder Protosuchia by Walker (1970); it was considered an invalid subgroup of Crocodyliformes by Brochu et al. (2009); it was reranked as the unranked clade Protosuchia by Wu and Sues (1996) and Ruebenstahl et al. (2022).

It was assigned to Crocodilia by Roxo (1937), Kuhn (1946), Huene (1954), Haughton and Brink (1954) and Charig (1967); to Crocodylia by Walker (1970); to Crocodylia by Kuhn (1966), Haubold (1971), Haubold (1974) and Carroll (1988); to Crocodilomorphi by Efimov (1996); and to Crocodyliformes by Wu and Sues (1996), Ortega et al. (2000), Fiorelli and Calvo (2008) and Ruebenstahl et al. (2022).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1934Protosuchia Mook
1937Protosuchia Roxo p. 44
1946Protosuchia Kuhn p. 64
1954Protorosuchia Haughton and Brink p. 4
1954Protosuchia Huene p. 54
1966Protosuchia Kuhn p. 82
1967Protosuchia Charig p. 710
1970Protosuchia Walker p. 369
1971Protosuchia Haubold p. 60
1974Protosuchia Haubold p. 40
1988Protosuchia Carroll
1996Protosuchia Efimov p. 307
1996Protosuchia Wu and Sues
2000Protosuchia Ortega et al.
2008Protosuchia Fiorelli and Calvo
2022Protosuchia Ruebenstahl et al.

Is something missing? Join the Paleobiology Database and enter the data

RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Deuterostomia
phylumChordataHaeckel 1874
subphylumVertebrata
superclassGnathostomata
Osteichthyes()
subclassSarcopterygii()
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha(Nelson 2006)
subclassTetrapodomorpha()
Tetrapoda
Reptiliomorpha
Anthracosauria
subclassAmphibiosauriaKuhn 1967
Cotylosauria()
Amniota
Sauropsida
RankNameAuthor
classReptilia
subclassEureptilia()
Romeriida
Diapsida()
Archosauromorpha(Huene 1946)
Crocopoda
ArchosauriformesGauthier 1986
Eucrocopoda
Archosauria()
Pseudosuchia(Zittel 1890)
SuchiaKrebs 1974
Paracrocodylomorpha
Loricata(Merrem 1820)
Crocodylomorpha()
Solidocrania
suborderCrocodyliformes
Protosuchia(Mook 1934)
Protosuchia(Mook 1934)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Unr. †Protosuchia Mook 1934
show all | hide all
Fm. †Artzosuchidae Efimov 1983
hide
G. †Artzosuchus Efimov 1983
+
G. †Hadongsuchus Hangjae et al. 2005
hide
Hadongsuchus acerdentis Hangjae et al. 2005
Fm. †Notochampsidae Haughton 1924
hide
G. †Notochampsa Broom 1904
+
Notochampsa istedana Broom 1904
G. †Orthosuchus Nash 1968
+
G. †Tagarosuchus Alifanov et al. 1999
hide
Tagarosuchus kulemzini Alifanov et al. 1999
Invalid names: Stegomosuchidae Huene 1922 [empty]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available